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| Great Migration | the movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrial north |
| Harlem renaissance | the flourishing of African American arts |
| Claude McKay | an important writer of the Harlem renaissance |
| Langston Hughes | a writer of the Harlem renaissance and leading voice of the African American experience in the United States |
| Jazz | a style of music influenced by Dixie land music and ragtime |
| Blues | a soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals |
| Marcus Garvey | – African American leader and founder of the universal Negro improvement association who urged African Americans to settle in Africa |
| Bohemian | an artistic and unconventional lifestyle |
| Carl Sandburg | a poet who used common speech to glorify the Midwest |
| Eugene o’ Neill | an innovative playwright whose plays showed realistic characters and situations |
| Ernest Hemingway | a novelist who presented a new literary style characterized by direct simple and concise prose |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | famous writer of the 1920’s who crated colorful glamorous characters that chased futile dreams |
| Mass media | movies newspapers and magazines aimed at a broad popular audience |
| Anarchist | individual who opposes all forms of government |
| Eugenics | a false science that deals with the improvement of hereditary traits |
| Ku Klux Klan | a society set up to restore white protestant American y terrorizing African Americans and Other minorities |
| Emergency quota act | law that established a temporary quota system and limited immigration |
| Flapper | a young dramatic stylish and unconventional woman |
| Fundamentalism | religious movement that focused on the authority of the bible |
| Evolution | theory that suggest that human beings had developed form lower forms of life over the course of millions of years |
| Creationism | fundamentalist belief that god created the world a described in the bible |
| Police powers | government’s power to control people and property in the interest of public safety health welfare and morals |
| Speakeasy | bar where people illegally purchased alcohol |
| Bohemian | an artistic and unconventional lifestyle |
| Carl Sandburg | a poet who used common speech to glorify the Midwest |
| Eugene o’ Neill | – an innovative playwright whose plays showed realistic characters and situations |
| Ernest Hemingway | a novelist who presented a new literary style characterized by direct simple and concise prose |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | famous writer of the 1920’s who crated colorful glamorous characters that chased futile dreams |
| Mass media | radio movies newspapers and magazines aimed at a broad popular audience |
